Chapter 4

7. John Gay's _The Present State of Wit_ (1711); and a section on Wit from _The English Theophrastus_ (1702). [#14800]

8. Rapin's _De Carmine Pastorali_, translated by Creech (1684). [#14495]

9. T. Hanmer's (?) _Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet_ (1736). [#14899]

10. Corbyn Morris' _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc._ (1744). [#16233]

11. Thomas Purney's _Discourse on the Pastoral_ (1717). [#15313]

12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch. [#16335]

*Third Year (1948-1949)*

13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), _The Theatre_ (1720). [#15999]

14. Edward Moore's _The Gamester_ (1753). [#16267]

15. John Oldmixon's _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley_ (1712); and Arthur Mainwaring's _The British Academy_ (1712). [In preparation]

16. Nevil Payne's _Fatal Jealousy_ (1673). [#16916]

17. Nicholas Rowe's _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare_ (1709). [#16275]

18. "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hill's Preface to _The Creation_ (1720). [#15870]

*Fourth Year (1949-1950)*

19. Susanna Centlivre's _The Busie Body_ (1709). [#16740]

20. Lewis Theobold's _Preface to The Works of Shakespeare_ (1734). [#16346]

21. _Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela_ (1754).

22. Samuel Johnson's _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two _Rambler_ papers (1750). [#13350]

23. John Dryden's _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681). [#15074]

24. Pierre Nicole's _An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams_, translated by J. V. Cunningham.

*Fifth Year (1950-1951)*

25. Thomas Baker's _The Fine Lady's Airs_ (1709). [#14467]

26. Charles Macklin's _The Man of the World_ (1792). [#14463]

27. Out of print.

[Frances Reynolds' _An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc._ (1785). [#13485] ]

28. John Evelyn's _An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); and _A Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661). [#17833]

29. Daniel Defoe's _A Vindication of the Press_ (1718). [#14084]

30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper's _Letters Concerning Taste_, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's _Miscellanies_ (1770). [#13464]

*Sixth Year (1951-1952)*

31. Thomas Gray's _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751); and _The Eton College Manuscript_. [#15409]

32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudéry's Preface to _Ibrahim_ (1674), etc. [#14525]

33. Henry Gally's _A Critical Essay_ on Characteristic-Writings (1725). [#16299]

34. Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).

35. James Roswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. _Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch_ (1763). [#15857]

36. Joseph Harris's _The City Bride_ (1696). [In preparation]

*Seventh Year (1952-1953)*

37. Thomas Morrison's _A Pindarick Ode on Painting_ (1767). [In preparation]

38. John Phillips' _A Satyr Against Hypocrites_ (1655).

39. Thomas Warton's _A History of English Poetry_.

40. Edward Bysshe's _The Art of English Poetry_ (1708).

41. Bernard Mandeville's "A Letter to Dion" (1732).

42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.

*Eighth Year (1953-1954)*

43. John Baillie's _An Essay on the Sublime_ (1747).

44. Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski's _The Odes of Casimire_, Translated by G. Hils (1646).

45. John Robert Scott's _Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts._

46. Selections from Seventeenth Century Songbooks.

47. Contemporaries of the _Tatler_ and _Spectator_.

48. Samuel Richardson's Introduction to _Pamela_.

*Ninth Year (1954-1955)*

49. Two St. Cecilia's Day Sermons (1696-1697).

50. Hervey Aston's _A Sermon Before the Sons of the Clergy_ (1745).

51. Lewis Maidwell's _An Essay upon the Necessity and Excellency of Education_ (1705).

52. Pappity Stampoy's _A Collection of Scotch Proverbs_ (1663). [#7018]

53. Urian Oakes' _The Soveriegn Efficacy of Divine Providence_ (1682).

54. Mary Davys' _Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady_ (1725).

*Tenth Year (1955-1956)*

55. Samuel Say's _An Essay on the Harmony, Variety, and Power of Numbers_ (1745).

56. _Theologia Ruris, sive Schola & Scala Naturae_ (1686).

57. Henry Fielding's _Shamela_ (1741).

58. Eighteenth Century Book Illustrations.

59. Samuel Johnson's _Notes to Shakespeare_. Vol. I, Comedies, Part I. [#7780]

60. Samuel Johnson's _Notes to Shakespeare_. Vol. I, Comedies, Part II. [#7780]

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Errors corrected by transcriber:

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